Corset-stay



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- W. HENIUS.

CORSET STAY.

No. 330,398. 7 Patented Nov. 17, 1885.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 330,398, dated November 1'7, 1885.

Application filed June 16, 1885.

To 60 whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MAX W. HENIUs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corsets; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to the manufacture of corsets, and has for its object to provide simple and inexpensive means whereby the stays or steels may be prevented from slipping up or down and from cutting through the material of the corset.

Heretofore in the manufacture of corsets various means have been devised to hold the stays against endwise mcvementsuch, for instance, as covering and capping the stays, eyeleting through the stays and both plies of the corset, and by flossing upon the outside of the corset. All of these means, however, have added considerably to the cost of manufacturing corsets, and have proved more or less unsatisfactory in use.

My invention wholly dispenses with eyeleting, flossing, and all additional stitching, and does not require that the stays should be covered or capped, the ordinary lines of stitching by which the stay-pockets are formed being utilized in the carrying out of my invention.

In order that others may understand and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the same. referring by letters to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of the back of a halfcorset, a portion of the outer ply of the fabric being broken away to illustrate the application of my invention; Fig. 2, an eleva-- tion of a single stay detached, illustrating my invention as applied at the top, bottom, and center of the stay; Fig. 3, a section on the line x m in Fig. 2; Fig. 4:, a section on the line yy in Fig. 2; and Fig. 5, an elevation showing a slightly-modified form in which a longer tape or strip is passed through a number of Serial No. 168,850. (No model.)

stays, instead of a separate strip being used for each stay.

It will of course be understood that my invention is applicable to all classes of corsets in which the stays are secured in pockets.

For conveniencein illustration,I have shown the application as made in connection with an ordinary two-ply corset made in sections.

A is the inner ply of material, and B the outer ply.

C indicates stays, each of which is provided with one or more elongated openings, D, through which short pieces E, of tape or cloth, are passed. These openings may be made at the top, bottom, or center of the stay; or, if desired, more than. one opening may be provided in the same stay. Ordinarily, however, a single tape or strip passed through an opening near the top of the stay Will be found quite sufficient.

F indicates the ordinary lines of stitching which form the stay-pockets.

In manufacturing, the stays are first placed in position between the plies of material, and

when the pockets are formed the lines F of corset, both ends of the tape or strip are folded over in one direction, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 4:, and the same line of stitching made to pass through both ends of the tape or strip.

In the modified form shown in Fig. 5, instead of separate tapes or strips for each stay. a longer tape or strip is used, and any desired number of stays strung upon it, the usual seams which form the stay-pockets being caused to pass through the tape, as in the other form.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. The combination, with the plies of a corset, of stays having one or more openings through them, tapes or strips passing through said openings, and lines of stitching passing through the tapes or strips and the corsetp1ies,whereloy the stays are firmly held against tapes and the corset-plies, substantially as deendwise movement. scribed.

10 2. The combination, With the plies of a cor- In testimony whereof I affiX my signature in set, of stays having one or more openings, presence of two Witnesses. 5 tapes or strips which pass through said open- MAX W. HENIUS.

ings, leaving their ends to extend in opposite Witnesses: directions, and lines of stitching on opposite A. M. WOOSTER, sides of the stays, which pass through the O. E. RUGGLEs. 

